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In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]
2011JosĂ© Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (born 1932)[â ]
JosĂ© Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and RobĂn Robot (1972).
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Chinese companies are using new techniques that help make pearls cheaper, throwing the industry into turmoil.
Political divisions in Congress have all but immobilized the levers of fiscal policy, raising pressure on the Federal Reserve to address the nationâs economic lethargy.
Representative Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House for the first time since an assassination attempt in January.
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group is imprisoning displaced and starving Somalis who were trying to escape Shabab territory.
New York spends $10 billion a year caring for the disabled, more than half of which goes to private providers, with little oversight on their spending.
President Obama took a final shot at his Republican opposition for what he called a manufactured, and avoidable, crisis.
Investors are returning their attention to the debt woes in Europe, and they do not like what they see.
The Standard & Poorâs index erased all of the gains of this year, while the Dow recorded its eighth consecutive day of declines.
A new one-act opera, âA Blizzard on Marblehead Neck,â directed by Francesca Zambello, has its premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival.
Despite countless delays and budget battles, the Air Force is betting that a $12 billion program of unmanned drones is ready to gather intelligence from heights only dreamed of.
After he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, the chef Seamus Mullen, whose restaurant Tertulia opens this month, discovered that food offered physical relief.
New York City Opera is eliminating the position of music director, currently held by George Manahan.